{"id":5760,"date":"2008-11-10T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2019-07-10T04:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T04:41:37","slug":"blues-art-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/review\/blues-art-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Art Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>VINCE AGWADA<\/strong><br \/><strong><em>Eyes Of The City<\/em><\/strong><br \/>2008 Vince Agwada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/\"><strong>www.vinceagwada.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singer and guitarist Vince is from Chicago where he was born in 1959 and got his start playing at Theresa\u2019s and The Checkerboard; he jammed with such esteemed figures as Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Lefty Dizz, Sammy Lawhorn and others. He has contributed to numerous albums and videos, either as a musician or composer, in his 25 years on the Windy City blues scene, but this is his debut CD under his own name. He describes his music as \u2018new millennium blues\u2019 and I won\u2019t argue with that. This is generally loud and brash, post-Alligator \u2018high energy blues\u2019, guitar based and often using funky rhythms behind Vince\u2019s muscular vocals on a programme of 13 original numbers \u2013 some of which are quite notable and stay long in the memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a variety of modern styles too \u2013 \u2018Blooze\u2019 and \u2018Tubed Out\u2019 are heavy, \u2018Does It Really Matter?\u2019 is a jazzy strut, \u2018Bottle\u2019 is a fairly traditional slide guitar shuffle, the title track is a moody, jazzy, spacey, sax-led piece, and \u2018Had To Cry\u2019 is Albert King styled; \u2018Come On In\u2019 has an unusual rhythm and slide guitar \u2013 the nearest (but not that close) comparison I can come up with is the Beatles\u2019 \u2018Come Together\u2019! Working from a promo, I cannot tell you just who plays what on this album, but rest assured, they are all top-notch musicians \u2013 as is Vince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any lover of modern blues will find plenty to enjoy here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u2014\u2013 Norman Darwen<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesart.at\/NeueSeiten\/CDReview+2008+Sept+Oct.html\">Blues Art Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VINCE AGWADAEyes Of The City2008 Vince Agwada www.vinceagwada.com Singer and guitarist Vince is from Chicago where he was born in 1959 and got his start playing at Theresa\u2019s and The Checkerboard; he jammed with such esteemed figures as Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Lefty Dizz, Sammy Lawhorn and others. He has contributed to numerous albums and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}